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Positive Psychology and Well-Being : Applications for Enhanced Living by Cynthia LaJambe and Frederick Brown (2016, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCognella, Inc.

ISBN-101516506723

ISBN-139781516506729

eBay Product ID (ePID)240304611

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Number of Pages388 Pages

Publication NamePositive Psychology and Well-Being : Applications for Enhanced Living

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPsychology

AuthorCynthia Lajambe, Frederick Brown

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight18.5 Oz

Item Length10 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Table Of ContentPreface 1: Introduction to Positive Psychology and Well-Being 2: Happiness, Well-Being, and Positive Psychology 3: Assertive Health Behaviors: Our Immune System, Nutrition, and Drinking 4: Assertive Health Behaviors Part II: Exercising and Sleeping 5: Stressors, Sources, and Reactions 6: Effective Coping: Handling Life's Demands 7: Building Positive Relationships 8: Gender: The Psychobiology and the Behavior 9: Pair Bonding: Dating, Marriage, and Long-Term Relationships 10: Integrating Work and Leisure 11: Transcendence: Values and Spirituality Appendix A: How to Read a Textbook for Studying Index

SynopsisIntroduces readers to well-being from a positive psychology perspective and encourages adopting proactive approaches to healthy living. Topics range from strengthening our immune system through nutrition, exercise, and sleep to recognising physical and psychological stressors resulting from unhealthy lifestyles, ineffective thinking, unaccommodated differences, and poor communication., Positive Psychology and Well-Being: Applications for Enhanced Living introduces readers to well-being from a positive psychology perspective, one of the original missions of psychology as a science, and encourages adopting proactive approaches to healthy living. It provides guidance for enhancing and maintaining life-long well-being. Topics range from strengthening our immune system through nutrition, exercise, and sleep to recognizing physical and psychological stressors resulting from unhealthy lifestyles, ineffective thinking, unaccommodated differences, and poor communication. This book describes the breadth of gender identities and ways to maintain long-term healthy friendships that include pair bonding, marriage, and alternative relationships. It addresses integrating work and leisure activities to enhance awareness of personal consciousness and social responsibility. It discusses developing an individual value system that makes life worthwhile, by finding connectedness to others and the universe. Sources of values include personal knowledge, cultural values, religion and spirituality, and scientific information. Designed to help students choose personalized constructive behaviors for total health maintenance based upon the best available information, Positive Psychology and Well-Being can be used in any college-level course that emphasizes a proactive, preventative approach to the study of psychology of adjustment and well-being. Frederick Brown holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Virginia, and is associate professor in cognitive psychology at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He initiated, with collaboration from the psychology faculty at the University's statewide campuses, an introductory course in well-being and positive psychology. He is a member of the International Positive Psychology Association, Health and Wellness division. Cynthia LaJambe received her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. She was awarded a three-year National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She is a human factors specialist and data analyst for the Larson Transportation Institute at Penn State and a member of the Health and Wellness division of the International Positive Psychology Association., Positive Psychology and Well-Being: Applications for Enhanced Living introduces readers to well-being from a positive psychology perspective, one of the original missions of psychology as a science, and encourages adopting proactive approaches to healthy living. It provides guidance for enhancing and maintaining life-long well-being. Topics range from strengthening our immune system through nutrition, exercise, and sleep to recognizing physical and psychological stressors resulting from unhealthy lifestyles, ineffective thinking, unaccommodated differences, and poor communication. This book describes the breadth of gender identities and ways to maintain long-term healthy friendships that include pair bonding, marriage, and alternative relationships. It addresses integrating work and leisure activities to enhance awareness of personal consciousness and social responsibility. It discusses developing an individual value system that makes life worthwhile, by finding connectedness to others and the universe. Sources of values include personal knowledge, cultural values, religion and spirituality, and scientific information. Designed to help students choose personalized constructive behaviors for total health maintenance based upon the best available information, Positive Psychology and Well-Being can be used in any college-level course that emphasizes a proactive, preventative approach to the study of psychology of adjustment and well-being.